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Subject: Kasparov Played Deep Blue Last Year

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 09:57:41 01/29/03

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The newspapers always check their facts carefully before publishing - their
credibility depends on accuracy. If they say Kasparov played Deep Blue last
year, there's no possibility that they could be wrong... is there?

http://www.vnunet.com/news/1138273  :)

-g

On January 29, 2003 at 12:52:22, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>According to "La Nacion", the most traditional newspaper from Argentina, in the
>"Seccion Deportiva" (Sports Section), Kasparov drew "Fritz Junior".
>
>http://www.lanacion.com.ar/03/01/29/dd_469767.asp
>
>I find this annoying. Before, Chess Tiger was "The German Program" (it was
>running under the Chessbase GUI) when it played in that famous (for tiger)
>international tournament. The "human" chess coverage is generally outstanding in
>that newspaper, why is it so difficult to keep correct track of the computer
>names? geeezz...
>
>Maybe the journalist think that everything run under Fritz interface and the
>rest are just "simple" plug-in's!
>
>Is it Junior running under the Fritz interface? Maybe the journalist is somehow
>"right".
>
>Miguel



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